The World Bank says high market concentration and regulatory inaction in Kenya’s telecommunications sector have made mobile data prices high compared to regional peers.The multilateral lender points ...

WASHINGTON, May 14, 2024—New World Bank data finds that private infrastructure investment in low- and middle-income countries totaled $86 billion in 2023. Investments declined 5% compared with 2022, ...

The World Bank is restructuring Pakistan’s $970 million CRISP program. The move aims to improve individual-level reporting ...

The primary source of remittance data on the international stage is the reports published by KNOMAD. KNOMAD (Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development) is a branch of the World Bank ...

The World Bank says developing countries paid 741bn dollars more in principal and interest on their external debt than they ...

Latest data released by the World Bank shows the tale of two countries - India and Pakistan - and their journey to battle poverty - a colonial inheritance. The comparison, especially over the last 15 ...

Data hosting, computing and sharing—empowered by interoperable platforms, and cutting-edge technologies—are accelerating sustainable development in the AI era. The World Bank is committed to helping ...

Two years after Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, World Bank figures indicate declining inflation, a stable rupee, and GDP growth approaching 5%. Yet for many citizens, the cost of living, poverty, and ...

Global gas flaring volumes continued to increase and reached a new high last year, pointing to insufficient efforts to curb the polluting practice that is turbo-charging global warming, according to a ...

As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...